THE NEW YORKER .........:.:....... . i 5:: : jl t!;l;:\; t Slf:,tt:;' :\if;:;W1?: ,,:: :: :::::. ':'". "Everything's gotta be spick and span. That's my wife for you." J !F>::: .-:-x.... . l ii:... :?:::::'::;::"'.: it ;!i;!; .;. ::{ .;:::=*.... ;:]*: ',; ,,::: \} /: ;i:t{!i t.?;;: ",:" "::,.,;" :l .: t .... :.:-:.:.' .. "'. ....:.. \;: :!:! r ; ' \ :t:: :>i, . . ....;./ t "j , a :, :m:":, 1 . .......: . .;.;:.... tTh t t ..:--:.;. ",: :;;" \\f ,::'::':': !Ë.:it Ie "+" 1;,< , i , ,.,,'" ,,,' "' , "I" III lie.., f !\1 /f.:,,:: ' "" ,- l , t (::,uu .. ' " '" :, "'--........<'--,. .. :1 1 æ .....xlt . :'i$, ,: , '<Mil: ....v... 'If "';'Y:.'. ': f. ". .; ",:: ;!;>" v ' '::':, :; t} ::;:::,:\:: ,: ,:: {; ':":';::" . t ':Ii' I "'i1. :/'; i :":"t> ' '{:'::";'=:";::,,::,:"':':: , / .:):i ","it " , . ':'. ::::; :: jf;<: .' .. ,, \i ! f:f :': :?':j::::: :.{. \ :r: i:"'... ; .:' . x:{::: ':""':: ::'0::':<;:;l;I::J;' ;"f{:".. ' OF ALL THINGS G OVERNOR ROOSEVELT does not favor a general sales tax. He thinks we can squeeze out enough revenue by taxing liquid assets like beer, gasoline, and electric juice. . The farm-allotment plan, Senator Capper says, will raise the cost of bread one cent a loaf, but it is the only effec- tive way to bring about a reduction in wheat acreage. So it will cost city slick- ers $750,000,000 to hire the farmers not to work so hard. . Sooner or later every New Yorker will have to visit Radio City Music Hall, and you had better make it sooner. Don't wait until your caustic cousin from Keokuk exposes your shame. . Colonel House warns us in Liberty that the dictator will get us if we don't watch out, either the Lenin or the Mussolini brand. Or it may turn out to be just Will Hays. . The equally Macfadden True Story Magazine, on the other hand, has in- side information that the nation wil1 survive and civilization will go on. Why? Because we are all such inte]- lectual giants. . Shipping checks by air express wi!] save millions of dollars in interest for the banks this year, but customers do not crave such snappy service. You scatter checks over a smiling land and before you can turn around the little rascals are back eating at the balance. . A speech by Senator Norris about the fight on Cannonism started the gaffers' tongues wagging about the stirring times when Uncle Joe was the villain of the piece. A Cannon was no bishop or prohibitionist in those two-fisted days . The Sumnicks of Nebraska are one of the few remaining specimens of the prosperous farm family. When they visit the Roosevelts next summer they may be tapped for membership in the Smithsonian. . Radio typewriting is a little too deep for this department's mind, but we are 19 .. '. : Vit"1 \.,. U: ','..:':':':" : J , ." . A ... ' - ': ::.:: t ). >:i:. .. ,::',t :, ": \1 ..,' !. : 1 >. :. :...:- , ,'::;'< :, <'" -\: ." 9'i" :: ^ t ìj:, ! : r' ;}{ ..::::': ''':0. \;. :' ""::"Õ< ','" : .: .. ", , " '(11\ c , already looking forward to the day when we can hear some typographical errors by Ed Wynn. . In Athens, Samuel Insull is a hero who lost all in trying to save his security- holders from ruin. Some enterprising publisher should now get out a revised edition of Greek mythology. . It is not chummy of the Greeks to keep everybody we send over, but still we cannot help wondering how they would like the loan of a good, slightly llsed Board of ..A.ldermen. . La Guardia's idea that our govern- ment reduce its interest rates to a fi ve- day-week basis sounds logical enough. It didn't hire the money for weekend use. . In Washington, these schemes for curing us of what we've got are known as "white rabbits," because they are cunning little cusses which you pull out of hats. And can they multiply! -HOWARD BRUBAKER